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HORTICULTURE 



June 20, 1914 



AUTOMOBILE TIRES AT 

 FACTORY PRICES 



SAVE FROM 30 TO 60 PER CENT. 



All other sizes in stock. Non-Skid 

 tires 15 per cent, additional, red tubes 

 10 per cent, above gray. All new 

 clean, fresh, guaranteed tires. Best 

 standard and independent makes. Buy 

 direct from us and save money. 5 per 

 cent, discount if payment in full ac- 

 companies each order. C. O. D. on 10 per 

 cent._deposit. Allowing examination. 



TIRE FACTORIES SALES CO. 

 Dept. A. Dayton, Ohio 



FOR SALE 



FOR SALE 



. tot of land, 348 feet by lOfi feet, with 3 

 iron construction greenuouses, 175 .t 20 feet 

 each, potting shed, some frames in fine 

 eonditlon. Located on (liree streets, trolley 

 passing the front, in a town of 40,000 in- 

 habitants, close to Xew York. Excellent 

 place, suitable either for local trade where 

 all the products could be readily sold or 

 for wholesale shippins: to Xew York or 

 Philadelphia. tow price, terms to suit 

 purchaser. ,4ddress Chance, care HOBTI- 

 CUiTUKE. 



FOR SALE — Large place in New Jersey, 

 ne.ir New York City, 30,000 feet of glass, 

 large dwelling and furniture, barn, horses, 

 and .nutomobile; well established business 

 local and wholesale; also large landscape 

 Dusiness. Place is near trolley and rail- 

 road, and IS in first class condition all 

 up-to-date improyements. " Price very rea- 

 sonable: owner must sell at once, "goins 

 w^'o. Particulars CHAS. MILLANG, 55 

 W. 26 St., New York City 



FOR SALE— 30,000 sq. ft. of Greenhouses: 

 Ext<^aljaree 6-Room House; Large Barii 

 and Wagon Shed; Packing House with 

 Cement Tanks, Pumping Engine and 

 Engine House, also Boiler House; 4 1-50 

 acres of the best land, with the priyileee 

 of 30 acres more. R. R. switch on premises. 

 Located 30 miles from New York on Long 

 Island ; 1 mile to two R. R. stations. Ad- 

 dress "W. B., Box 85, Lakehurst, N. J. 



FOR SALE— Fresh from factory, new; 

 10x12, 16x18, 16x24, double thick. A 

 and B qualities. Market dropped. Now is 

 the time to buy and saye money. PAR- 

 SHELSKY BROS., INC., 215-217 Have- 

 meyer St, Brooklyn, N. T. 



BARGAIN — Greenhouce, residence and 

 stock; no competition; liye village, 30 

 mile* from Buffalo, excellent shipping fa- 

 •llltlei. Write ELLIS BROS., SprlngviUe, 



INFORMATION WANTED 



WANTED names and addresses of fore- 

 men seeking positions on commercial 

 places January and February, 1913. Ad- 

 dress "J. L.," care HORTICULTURE. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Success With Hens, by Robert Joos. 

 Published by Forbes & Co., Chicago. 

 Profit and pleasure \vith poultry, 

 equipment, management, raising and 

 marketing of eggs and poultry, dis- 

 eases, exhibiting and the thousand and 

 one details of successful poultry farm- 

 ing are thoroughly and practically 

 elucidated in the 55 chapters included 

 in this useful work. Price $1.00. 



The Tree Guide, for Trees East of 

 the Rockies, by Julia Ellen Rogers. 

 This is a very practical little descrip- 

 tive handbook, size 3I4X5I/2, 270 pages, 

 each page giving a portrait (some in 

 colors) and careful botanical descrip- 

 tion of one tree in all details neces- 

 sary for identification. It will be found 

 a very useful pocket companion by the 

 tree lover. Published by Doubleday, 

 Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y. Price: 

 Cloth, . 11.00; leather, net, $1.25. Copies 

 can be supplied by Horticulture. 



The Back Yard Farmer, by J. Wil- 

 lard Bolte. Published by Forbes & 

 Co., Chicago. Price, $1.00. Just the 

 book for the amateur and home gar- 

 dener. There are 76 chapters, cover- 

 ing all kinds of garden crops, orna- 

 mental and useful, laying out and cul- 

 ture, poultry, bees, domestic animals, 

 etc., and anyone using this practical 

 book as a guide cannot fail to make 

 the back yard and the entire home en- 

 vironment a beauty spot and a full 

 realization of home comfort and hap- 

 piness. 



Transactions of the National Chrys- 

 anthemum Society (England) for the 

 year 1913. This annual volume issued 

 by the secretary, Mr. Richard A. 

 Witty. 72 Savernake Road, Gospel 

 Oak, N. W. London, is full of inter- 

 esting information for the chrysanthe- 

 mum enthusiast. A portrait of Mr. 

 Thos. Bevan, chairman of the execu- 

 tive committee, forms the frontis- 

 piece, and there is an interesting il- 

 lustrated chapter on Chrysanthemums 

 for Outdoor Garden Decoration. P. A. 

 Cragg contributes a useful report on 

 a trial of steam sterilization for 

 chrysanthemums. A full audit of 

 blooms exhibited at the Crystal Pal- 

 ace Show last November is given by 

 D. B. Crane, chairman of the floral 

 committee, also a report on the new 

 classification of chrysanthemums. 

 Seven beautiful colored plates of first- 

 prize winning exhibits are inserted as 

 a supplement. A detailed report on the 

 Autumn Exhibition at Ghent, Belgium, 

 is contributed by C. Harnjan Payne. 



Also received the Schedule of 

 Prizes, List of Members, etc., of the 

 National Chrysanthemum Society for 

 1914. 



THE 1913 AGRICULTURAL YEAR- 

 BOOK OUT. 

 Washington, D. C. — The Yearbook of 

 the United States Department of 

 Agriculture for 1913 has just come 

 from the presses, and is now being 

 distributed to Congressmen and to 

 correspondents of the Department en- 

 titled to receive copies. The new 

 volume differs in several respects from 

 its predecessors. The articles that it 

 contains are in general of a more pop- 

 ular and instructive character, and 

 although the book itself contains a 

 smaller number of pages, it is safe to 

 say that it has as much valuable ma- 

 terial in it as ever. 

 The book is illustrated by 54 full- 



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THEY PAY DOI.I.ARS WHILE 

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The young, 20 to 25 days old, sell for 

 40 to 60 cents each (according to the 

 season). The city markets are always 

 clamoring for them. 



Each pair of Pig:eons will raise 



18 to 23 young: a year. 

 They will clear you, above all expenses, 

 ?5.00 a year per pair. They breed the 

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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE. 



With the close of the college year 

 the regular work in floriculture has 

 ended. The Department strongly ad- 

 vises the students to get practical ex- 

 perience, and so each summer a num- 

 ber of men go out into practical work. 

 F. E. Allen is to work for W. N. Craig 

 a^ Faulkner Farms, Brookline; A. S. 

 Thurston for A. H. Wingett at "Alleen 

 Winden," Lenox; W. L. Doran on the 

 estate of J. P. Morgan in Newport. 

 A. E. Wilkins and E. S. Wright stay at 

 the college to work for the Ploricul- 

 tural Department; W. H. Haskell also 

 stays to work in the Market Garden- 

 ing Department. Miss S. J. Strange, 

 who graduates from the college, will 

 teach school gardening and elemen- 

 tary horticulture the coming year. 

 W. H. Hatfield has charge of the 

 school gardening work at Milton, 

 Mass., for the summer. G. A. Reld, 

 another Senior, has secured a position 

 as an assistant manager on the estate 

 of Mr. F. C. Littleton, Mamaroneck, 

 Xew York. 



